Miguel Oliveira held today the 15th race of the MotoGP world championship, at MotorLand, in Aragon, Spain. After a generally troubled start by the peloton, the portuguese rider, who started from the 4th row of the grid, managed to settle in eighth position, where he rode for about nine crossings across the finish line. However, he ended the race in 11th place, after several battles on the asphalt in search of the highest sum of points to pass the checkered flag.
The day began with the usual warm-up session, in which Miguel Oliveira ran 11 laps, having had his best record of the session on the seventh pass, 20th on the timesheet, with 1m49s169.
Mentally confident for the race, the rider from Almada made a good start from 11th position on the starting grid, which corresponds to the fourth row, and managed to climb several positions right away until eighth, to fight with Johann Zarco for seventh position during nine laps. Despite the very troubled start of the race, with two major incidents on the first lap, Oliveira managed the moment in the best way and gained space to start his race towards the goal set the day before – fighting for a top-5 spot.
Disputed over 23 laps, totalizing about 120km of distance covered, Miguel Oliveira's race took place with his KTM RC16 mounted on hard and medium tires (front and rear) and was marked by the duels with Frenchman Zarco and the Italian Luca Marini and later with Alex Rins and Marco Bezzecchi, who pushed him to 11th place.
Miguel Oliveira ends the race with five more points in his portfolio, now totalizing 95 points, which keeps him in 11th position in the overall standings of the championship.
The entire MotoGP caravan is now heading to Motegi, in Japan, where the 16th round of the championship will take place between the 23rd and 25th of September.
